How to mute a user you are following on Twitter

How to mute a user you are following on Twitter

Twitter announced Monday a new feature that will allow users to mute people they follow, essentially silencing a user’s tweets and retweets.

“Today we’re beginning to introduce a new account feature called mute to people who use our iPhone and Android apps and twitter.com,” the company announced on Monday “Mute gives you even more control over the content you see on Twitter by letting you remove a user’s content from key parts of your Twitter experience.”

How to mute a user:

To mute a user from a Tweet on your iOS or Android device or on Twitter for web tap more and then mute @username. To mute someone from their profile page, tap the gear icon on the page and choose mute @username.